Re: FN-FORUM: Intellectual Property

date posted 1st August 2005 14:43

On 1 Aug 2005 14:07:37 -0000, Mike A [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Oooops! Apologies if I seemed terse... more to do with the 1001 things go=
ing
> on here than the subject matter.
>=20
> However, this is an issue important to all freelancers. In so far as IPRs=
go
> no contract is highly protective.
>=20
> Mike A.

Im beginning to think i should start encoding all my scripts. I had a
look around, one recommendation was IonCube, its cheaper than the zend
one. The only other way ive seen to do it in php is to use the gzip
library in php along with bas64 encoding and run that through 10 or
more times, reversing it on runtime, but this is easy to de-code for
anyone that knows php.

Does anyone else rely on this method for protecting thier work or does
anyone completely rely on legal methods. I suppose encoding could be
used as a method for preventing legal issues arising.

Thanks
Tam Denholm
www.dreadlabs.com